"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."

-- Gene Tunney

#Exercise Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Boyhood Quotes

“Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.”
“The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.”
“A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.”
“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.”
“Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.”
“Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.”
“No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.348, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.”

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